Latham lets loose

It was disappointing to hear the rhetorical restraint of the Gillard camp towards the bumbling pro-Rudd plotters after the leadership challenge that wasn’t. Here in the principality we feel the defeated deserve scorn and abuse.

So we were glad that esteemed Australian Financial Review columnist and Gillard fan
Mark Latham
showed the way. In his new role as TV pundit, he described Rudd plotter
Joel Fitzgibbon
, the man he once stood beside as best man at a wedding, as an “amateur", “idiot, “buffoon" and “the dregs of the labour movement".

Also in Latham’s “dregs" basket is another former ALP luminary now turned pundit,
Graham Richardson
. Latham asked how on earth a Labor man could have got into trouble with that Swiss bank account.

He bestowed Richardson with a hotly contested title. “The biggest idiot in Labor politics today is the man who put Obeid in Parliament: Graham Fredrick Richardson."